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WW1: The War In The Colonies

by Henrik Peetz

Overall Facts

  • Who: Great Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal
  • Where: Pacific, Indonesia, China, Africa
  • Outcome: The Central powers had to give up all their colonies
  • Much less soldiers and war equipment

=> less and smaller fights

=> more agent missions and support of revolts

Smaller Locations

  • Tsingtau
  • Kaiser Wilhelmsland
  • Togo
  • Southafrica
  • Kamerun

Smaller Locations

Numbers:

Allies: 210.000–240.000, losses: 18.626 soldiers and 44.572 carriers

Germany:

losses: 15.037

East Africa

  • The conflicts in East Africa lasted for the

entire war

  • Very weak forces
  • European officers
  • Many carriers

The Askaris

  • Recruited directly in Africa

=>Mainly by Germany

  • Very loyal and brutal
  • Legends gathered around them because of the fearlessness
  • Took their families/their wives with them

Course Of The War

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Course Of The War

  • Battle of Tanga in 1914: Heavy losses for Great Britain
  • For much of the time the german troops could hold back the British

=> the troops could be otherwise used for example in Europe

  • In 1916: German East Africa was occupied by the British forces
  • Much territories were pillaged in the end

Impact

  • Hundreds of thousands africans died because of the devastation and burnt fields during the war in East Africa
  • One of the greatest defeats in british military history

=> Shows again that the european great powers are vincible by african natives

Impact

Sources:

  • https://www.dhm.de/lemo/kapitel/erster-weltkrieg/kriegsverlauf/krieg-in-deutsch-ostafrika-1914-1918.html
  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erster_Weltkrieg_au%C3%9Ferhalb_Europas#Kriegsschaupl%C3%A4tze_in_und_bei_den_deutschen_Kolonien
  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erster_Weltkrieg_in_Ostafrika

Sources

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